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Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names

Index Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names

Many shapes have metaphorical names, i.e., their names are metaphors: these shapes are named after a most common object that has it. [1]

116 relations: A, A-frame, A-frame house, A-line (clothing), Ancient Greek, Astroid, Bacillus, Beam (structure), Bell, Bicorn, Body shape, Botany, Briefs, C, Chevron (insignia), Chi (letter), Chiasmus, Chiastic structure, Cone, Conifer cone, Cross section (geometry), Cylinder, D, D-ring, Delta (letter), Deltahedron, Deltoid muscle, Dimension, E, Earth, Egg, English language, Engraved Hourglass Nebula, Etymology, Figure of the Earth, Floor plan, Frustum, Gaelic football, Gaussian function, Geoid, Glossary of leaf morphology, Goal (sport), Gridiron football, H, Heart (symbol), Hourglass, Hourglass corset, Hurling, Hyoid bone, I, ..., I-beam, Inlet cone, Inverted bell, J, K, L, L game, Latin, Leaf, Lentil, Lists of shapes, Lune (geometry), Magnetic core, Mesoamerican ballgame, Metaphor, Mushroom cloud, N, O, O-ring, Optic chiasm, Oval, P, Pear, Pear-shaped, Plant, Projection (mathematics), Quartic plane curve, Ramjet, Résumé, Recession shapes, River delta, Rugby football, S, Saltire, Serif, Serpentine shape, Shape, Sigmoid colon, Solid, Stadium (geometry), Star polygon, Sunburst, T, T-shaped molecular geometry, T-shaped skills, T-shirt, Talking drum, The L-Shaped Room, Three-point turn, Three-way junction, Tomahawk (geometry), Torus, Transformer, Trap (plumbing), U, U-shaped valley, U-turn, V, V sign, V-shaped passage grave, Valley, Vesica piscis, W, X, Y, 8. Expand index (66 more) »

A

A (named, plural As, A's, as, a's or aes) is the first letter and the first vowel of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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A-frame

An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner.

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A-frame house

An A-frame house is an architectural house style featuring steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.

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A-line (clothing)

An A-line skirt is a skirt that is fitted at the hips and gradually widens towards the hem, giving the impression of the shape of a capital letter A. The term is also used to describe dresses and coats with a similar shape.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Astroid

An astroid is a particular mathematical curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps.

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Bacillus

Bacillus is a genus of gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria and a member of the phylum Firmicutes.

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Beam (structure)

A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally to the beam's axis.

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Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.

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Bicorn

In geometry, the bicorn, also known as a cocked hat curve due to its resemblance to a bicorne, is a rational quartic curve defined by the equation It has two cusps and is symmetric about the y-axis.

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Body shape

Human body shape is a complex phenomenon with sophisticated detail and function.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Briefs

Briefs are a type of short, snug underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where material extends down the thighs.

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C

C is the third letter in the English alphabet and a letter of the alphabets of many other writing systems which inherited it from the Latin alphabet.

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Chevron (insignia)

A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark, often inverted.

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Chi (letter)

Chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ; χῖ) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced or in English.

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Chiasmus

In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ") is a “reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words”.

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Chiastic structure

Also, this article is about the literary technique.

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Cone

A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.

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Conifer cone

A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures.

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Cross section (geometry)

In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces.

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Cylinder

A cylinder (from Greek κύλινδρος – kulindros, "roller, tumbler"), has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.

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D

D (named dee) is the fourth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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D-ring

A D-ring is an item of hardware, usually a tie-down metal ring shaped like the letter D used primarily as a lashing point.

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Delta (letter)

Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ or 𝛿; δέλτα délta) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Deltahedron

In geometry, a deltahedron (plural deltahedra) is a polyhedron whose faces are all equilateral triangles.

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Deltoid muscle

The deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder.

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Dimension

In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.

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E

E (named e, plural ees) is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Engraved Hourglass Nebula

The Engraved Hourglass Nebula (also known as MyCn 18) is a young planetary nebula in the southern constellation Musca about 8,000 light-years from Earth.

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Etymology

EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".

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Figure of the Earth

The figure of the Earth is the size and shape of the Earth in geodesy.

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Floor plan

In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.

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Frustum

In geometry, a frustum (plural: frusta or frustums) is the portion of a solid (normally a cone or pyramid) that lies between one or two parallel planes cutting it.

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football (Irish: Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil or Caid), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is an Irish team sport.

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Gaussian function

In mathematics, a Gaussian function, often simply referred to as a Gaussian, is a function of the form: for arbitrary real constants, and.

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Geoid

The geoid is the shape that the surface of the oceans would take under the influence of Earth's gravity and rotation alone, in the absence of other influences such as winds and tides.

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Glossary of leaf morphology

The following is a defined list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.

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Goal (sport)

In sports, a goal is a physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points.

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Gridiron football

Gridiron football,.

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H

H (named aitch or, regionally, haitch, plural aitches)"H" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "aitch" or "haitch", op.

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Heart (symbol)

The heart shape is an ideograph used to express the idea of the "heart" in its metaphorical or symbolic sense as the center of emotion, including affection and love, especially romantic love.

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Hourglass

An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time.

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Hourglass corset

An hourglass corset is a garment that produces a silhouette resembling an hourglass shape characterized by wide hips, narrow waist (wasp waist), and wide bust.

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Hurling

Hurling (iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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I

I (named i, plural ies) is the ninth letter and the third vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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I-beam

An -beam, also known as H-beam (for universal column, UC), w-beam (for "wide flange"), universal beam (UB), rolled steel joist (RSJ), or double-T (especially in Polish, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian and German), is a beam with an or H-shaped cross-section.

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Inlet cone

Inlet cones (sometimes called shock cones or inlet centerbodies) are a component of some supersonic aircraft and missiles.

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Inverted bell

The inverted bell is a metaphorical name for geometric shape that resembles a bell upside down.

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J

J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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K

K (named kay) is the eleventh letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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L

L (named el) is the twelfth letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet, used in words such as lagoon, lantern, and less.

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L game

The L game is a simple abstract strategy board game invented by Edward de Bono.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Lentil

The lentil (Lens culinaris or Lens esculenta) is an edible pulse.

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Lists of shapes

This is an index of lists of geometric shapes and related topics.

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Lune (geometry)

In plane geometry, a lune is the concave-convex area bounded by two circular arcs, while a convex-convex area is termed a lens.

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Magnetic core

A magnetic core is a piece of magnetic material with a high magnetic permeability used to confine and guide magnetic fields in electrical, electromechanical and magnetic devices such as electromagnets, transformers, electric motors, generators, inductors, magnetic recording heads, and magnetic assemblies.

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Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played since 1400 BCSee Hill, Blake and Clark (1998); Schuster (1998).

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Mushroom cloud

A mushroom cloud is a distinctive pyrocumulus mushroom-shaped cloud of debris/smoke and usually condensed water vapor resulting from a large explosion.

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N

N (named en) is the fourteenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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O

O (named o, plural oes) is the 15th letter and the fourth vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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O-ring

An O-ring, also known as a packing, or a toric joint, is a mechanical gasket in the shape of a torus; it is a loop of elastomer with a round cross-section, designed to be seated in a groove and compressed during assembly between two or more parts, creating a seal at the interface.

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Optic chiasm

The optic chiasm or optic chiasma (Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω 'to mark with an X', after the Greek letter 'Χ', chi) is the part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross.

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Oval

An oval (from Latin ovum, "egg") is a closed curve in a plane which "loosely" resembles the outline of an egg.

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P

P (named pee) is the 16th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Pear

The pear is any of several tree and shrub species of genus Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae.

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Pear-shaped

Pear-shaped is a metaphorical term with several meanings, all in reference to the shape of a (European) pear, i.e. tapering towards the top.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Projection (mathematics)

In mathematics, a projection is a mapping of a set (or other mathematical structure) into a subset (or sub-structure), which is equal to its square for mapping composition (or, in other words, which is idempotent).

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Quartic plane curve

A quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree.

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Ramjet

A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a flying stovepipe or an athodyd (an abbreviation of aero thermodynamic duct), is a form of airbreathing jet engine that uses the engine's forward motion to compress incoming air without an axial compressor or a centrifugal compressor.

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Résumé

A résumé, also spelled resume, is a document used by a person to present their backgrounds and skills.

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Recession shapes

Recession shapes are used by economists to describe different types of recessions.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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S

S (named ess, plural esses) is the 19th letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Saltire

A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type.

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Serif

In typography, a serif is a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

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Serpentine shape

A serpentine shape is any of certain curved shapes of an object or design, which are suggestive of the shape of a snake (the adjective "serpentine" is derived from the word serpent).

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Shape

A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface, as opposed to other properties such as color, texture or material composition.

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Sigmoid colon

The sigmoid colon (pelvic colon) is the part of the large intestine that is closest to the rectum and anus.

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Solid

Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).

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Stadium (geometry)

A stadium is a two-dimensional geometric shape constructed of a rectangle with semicircles at a pair of opposite sides.

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Star polygon

In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon.

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Sunburst

A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns.

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T

T (named tee) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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T-shaped molecular geometry

In chemistry, T-shaped molecular geometry describes the structures of some molecules where a central atom has three ligands.

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T-shaped skills

The concept of T-shaped skills, or T-shaped persons is a metaphor used in job recruitment to describe the abilities of persons in the workforce.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (or t shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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Talking drum

The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech.

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The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building.

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Three-point turn

The three-point turn (sometimes called a Y-turn, K-turn, or broken U-turn) is the standard method of turning a vehicle around to face the opposite direction in a limited space, using forward and reverse gears.

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Three-way junction

A 3-way junction (or 3-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms.

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Tomahawk (geometry)

The tomahawk is a tool in geometry for angle trisection, the problem of splitting an angle into three equal parts.

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Torus

In geometry, a torus (plural tori) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle.

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Transformer

A transformer is a static electrical device that transfers electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction.

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Trap (plumbing)

In plumbing, a trap is a device which has a shape that uses a bending path to capture water to prevent sewer gases from entering buildings, while allowing waste to pass through.

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U

U (named u, plural ues) is the 21st letter and the fifth vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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U-shaped valley

U-shaped valleys, trough valleys or glacial troughs, are formed by the process of glaciation.

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U-turn

A U-turn in driving refers to performing a 180° rotation to reverse the direction of travel.

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V

V (named vee) is the 22nd letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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V sign

The V sign is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted, while the other fingers are clenched.

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V-shaped passage grave

V-shaped passage graves are a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe including Ireland and the Channel Islands.

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Valley

A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.

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Vesica piscis

The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other.

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W

W (named double-u,Pronounced plural double-ues) is the 23rd letter of the modern English and ISO basic Latin alphabets.

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X

X (named ex, plural exes) is the 24th and antepenultimate letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Y

Y (named wye, plural wyes) is the 25th and penultimate letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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8

8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_shapes_with_metaphorical_names

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